Slim pickings again this week, but there are a few new releases worth checking out.
Iron Age's The Sleeping Eye is perfect for fans of Fucked Up. This Texas band mixes elements of hardcore and psych rock, although not as adeptly as their Canadian counterparts. The songs are fairly epic, and bear more than a passing resemblance to Mastodon, sounding something like that band's surly, less polished cousins. It is, as the kids say, "brutal."
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In what appears to be the new version of "naked chicks at the Playboy Mansion" trend, we've got another vaguely pornographic music video. This time, it's from Electric Six, and is for the song "Body Shot," off their forthcoming Metropolis release Kill, due out on October 20.
Unlike the Rammstein "Pussy" video, this is actually a pretty decent tune. The video is like watching a horny Terry Gilliam cartoon run loose in the land of Yellow Submarine. No money shots in this one, though. Still, very